ClimateCast.me!
Speculative meteorology, post-fictional weather forecasts (2024)
Instead of forecasting the weather for today or tomorrow, Climatecast.me propels viewers 50 years forward and returns a projection for today or tomorrow several decades into the future. Drawing from a selection of climate models downscaled by NASA, it gives us a glimpse into a possible climate future based on a selection of given scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway).
As we all know, climate does not equal weather, and climate models aren't weather models, so this is far from any reliable forecast the tool is not meant to provide accurate predictions, but rather a new way to engage with climate model data. By providing this arbitrary non-scientific entry point we bring models and data back into the realm of everyday experience to make complex earth systems and general circulation models more accessible and inspire a broader understanding and discussion of our planet's future and the issues that shape it.
Climate scenarios used were from the NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 dataset, prepared by the Climate Analytics Group and NASA Ames Research Center using the NASA Earth Exchange and distributed by the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), https://www.nccs.nasa.gov/services/data-collections/land-based-products/nex-gddp-cmip6
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
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